Gábor Lázár has established himself as one of electronic music’s most radical young auteurs, with a discography stretching from high-concept sound art to the screwface intensity of gabber, grime, and electro. As well as collaborations with luminaries like Russell Haswell and Mark Fell, the Hungarian artist has released four albums of increasingly intense sound experiments, starting with 2014’s ILS, which found a home on Lorenzo Senni’s label, Presto?!.

Lázár has continued to refine his ice-pick rhythms, lazer-guided synths and bone-dry textures into a totally idiosyncratic style. His latest album Source, released on Planet Mu this year, is his most buoyant work to date, swapping intricate IDM for the manic fringes of rave culture.

Returning to the endless possibilities of additive synthesis, Gábor’s sketch demonstrates his unusually formulaic compositional system, a process he’s described as “trying to give different answers to my own questions.” Combining swooping modulations with a disjointed 2-step rhythm, the basic elements seem to burst into color, like a beam of light shot through a prism.

Sketches 060 - Gábor Lázár

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